I've been holding this back for a long time--INCREDIBLY EXCITED to say my song "I Wanna Kno" was chosen for the Bomb Rush Cyberfunk soundtrack. Grateful to director Dion Koster for seeing something in the track and letting me help color the game world of New Amsterdam. I still can't believe I'm part of one of the coolest games ever in a music lineup like this. Out now on PC/Nintendo Switch, coming to consoles soon after!
Tagged by @two-hands-toward-the-sun to shuffle my Spotify On Repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks! I'm afraid this list will be very biased due to my "study/work" playlist and my obssesion with Hozier but let's see.
"Big Beast" by 2 Mello. This is the track that features in @thepenumbrapodcast and the track that got me into 2 Mello's album Memories Of Tokyo-To. It quickly became my favourite album for data-entry work. Its funky hip-hop beats keep me awake and focused for hours. Let's see if more songs from this album feature in this list.
"Talk" by Hozier. See? I told you. Well, I've been a fan of Hozier for years and Talk is a song from the Wasteland, Baby! album, which was my 2020-2021 soundtrack. I like this one cause it's not really about politics or love or religion like his other work. No, this one is a horny song.
"Damage Gets Done" by Hozier with the wonderful Brandi Carlile. This one is from Unreal Unearth and Brandi's vocals are breath-taking. For me this song is an invitation to enjoy youth and life, and not to get buried in guilt and dread. Ultimately, the people who are most responsible for our world's destruction will only benefit of our souls crushing and breaking. Let's take care of ourselves and sing loud and strong about the things we care about.
"Little Dark Age" by MGMT. I'll admit this one is a song that just ended up in some playlists of mine for the vibe.
"Rule #1 - Magic" by Fish in a Birdcage. I love the cello and the general story-telling vibe of Fish in a Birdcage's songs.
"Girassol" by ÀVUÀ. Well, what can I say? If you haven't heard ÀVUÀ, please do. The vocals are amazing and the music cures my soul. I blame @two-hands-toward-the-sun for my obssesion with this Brazilian duet.
"Pump Up the Love" by 2 Mello. Yep, another one. Cause I keep this album on repeat for hours! I blame Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert for this.
"It's Called: Freefall" by Rainbow Kitten Surprise. Ohh I like this song so much, but this band has many other bangers. Drop Stop Roll and Devil Like Me are cool.
"The Moss" by Cosmo Sheldrake. Listen, I'm a biologist. I am very drawn to the biology/nature themes Cosmo Sheldrake uses to write his songs.
"De Selby (Part 2)" by Hozier. The transition from Part 1 to Part 2?? Exquisite. This is a song that should be listened to with headphones. And if you have seen the music video, yeah I dance to it like that too lmao.
That was fun! If anyone else wants to participate feel free!
2 MELLO & MILLION SUNDAY - "SEEK your SOUND"
A collaborative EP releasing March 15!
This is "Goin In", the first song from the EP.
Pre-order: https://2mellomakes.bandcamp.com/album/seek-your-sound
https://2mello.net/store
Album art by Ellie Reis (https://www.elliereis.com/)
Additional graffiti art by TORI (https://linktr.ee/tori_vsthewrld)
More music from MILLION SUNDAY (https://millionsunday.bandcamp.com)
This project is a first-time thing for both of us, collaborating directly with another producer on the same tracks for an entire EP. "SEEK your SOUND" is not just its name, but also a directive to all our listeners who make music--and even a goal for ourselves as we worked on this. An encouragement to find the best sounds and methods that let you express yourself, and to keep finding and holding onto them when creating gets tough.
Today is the first Friday of the month, a.k.a. Bandcamp Friday, which is when the platform waives any fees it charges artists. 100% of the money you spend on digital music and merch will go to the artist, so it's a great day to support your recent favorite musicians.
Reblog with anything you're picking up on Bandcamp today!
I'll be picking up this hip-hop release from 2 Mello and Million Sunday. I first became acquainted with 2 Mello through Memories of Tokyo-to, a concept album about recreating the distinctive music of videogame classic Jet Set Radio.* Their second album of the same concept, Sounds of Tokyo-to Future, had one of the tracks picked up by indie game Bomb Rush Cyberfunk.
i love love love what bomb rush cyberfunk has done, as a love letter to jet set radio, electronica, hip hop, and the entire aesthetic (2000s futurism i think?) From the visual style emulating the dreamcast-era graphics to the huge variety of artists, both visual artists and music artists, providing a plethora of graffiti to tag on walls and kicking jams to skate/grind/bike to, its just great. fantastic. amazing.
among their coterie of amazing artists, they got hideki naganuma to make 3 tracks for it, which are all great, but this isn't surprising given they worked with him on lethal league blaze where he cranked out Ain't Nothing Like A Funky Beat. What i think is more surprising is that they got 2mello (!) to work on it, but only for 1 song. 2mello has 2 different albums based on jet set radio games, the original game and jet set radio future (and that's just the stuff im familiar with) so i don't know if it was like a choice to only have him do 1 song on the track or if there was like a scheduling thing, but damn i think that was a missed opportunity